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FS#10605 - firefox3: required to accept a non-free EULA

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mildred (mildred) - Saturday, 07 June 2008, 23:13 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 22 June 2008, 00:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Unstable
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:

When you run firefox for the first time, you are required to accept a non-free EULA from Mozilla. This makes me unable to use firefox.

I tried to compile firefox from source w/o official branding without success, so for now, I'm using epiphany. This is a great piece of software but unfortunately it doesn't have all the features of Mozilla Firefox (spellcheck, form filling, ...), so I hope this solution will be tempoary.

I cannot understand why the EULA shows up since it seems firefox2-rc2 doesn't use official branding (When it start I could see it is called Minefield instead of Firefox, and it didn't have the Firefox icon)

If you don't intend firefox3 to be free software, then change the license field in the package information that is misleading.

Additional info:
* package version: firefox3-3.0rc2-1

Steps to reproduce:
* install firefox3
* run it
* don't accept the EULA
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 22 June 2008, 00:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in firefox 3.0-1, which will appear tomorrow.
Comment by Mildred (mildred) - Saturday, 07 June 2008, 23:16 GMT
Well, I have to say that before rc releases, I wasable to run Minefield w/o accepting the EULA.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:01 GMT
Why the heck are you reporting this here and not upstream?
Comment by Mildred (mildred) - Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 13:34 GMT
I thought it was a packaging problem. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems that it is possible to choose whenever we want the official branding or not during the compilation. in fact I haven't even imagined that could be a bug in the build system (and I still don't know, I searched for branding bugs in bugzilla and haven't found it).
But I don't know for sure since I couldn't compile firefox myself (and run it afterwards).
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 13:38 GMT
Well the only difference between rc1 and rc2 builds was bumping the pkgver, and my package doesn't enable official branding. I'm not sure your "change the license in the package information" comment has anything to do with software being "free software", unless that license specifically prohibits software from presenting a EULA.
Comment by Mildred (mildred) - Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 15:30 GMT
That also appeared with rc1 as well. But before rc releases it was not a problem.

Technically, the software may have a different licence (this is not really clear from the Mozilla website), but as soon as the user accepts the EULA, it is as if the licence was the EULA. And in the official build tarballs there is clearly no open source licence.

Well, if you thay that before the rc and now there was no significant change to the way Firefox was built, I think you're right and a bug upstream should be opened.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 10:56 GMT
From ubuntu changelog:
* Prevent EULA dialog to popup on first run by setting the browser.EULA.override
key to true
- update debian/firefox.js
Comment by Mildred (mildred) - Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:00 GMT
It seems the ay to go ...
I just found the bug in the Mozilla bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435588
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Friday, 13 June 2008, 03:19 GMT
I don't plan on rebuilding the version in Unstable since the final release should come sometime next week.

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